(Decanter) - Many New Zealand winemakers, excited at the prospect of an outstanding 2013 vintage and a chance to replenish stocks after the low grape haul in 2012, are playing down talk of a glut. 'Stunning' summer weather and a dry autumn may be causing drought issues in some sections of New Zealand agriculture, but it has led to 'fantastic' growing and ripening conditions for the country's wine industry, generic body New Zealand Winegrowers said this week.

'We are expecting a very high quality harvest in all our regions,' NZ Winegrowers' CEO, Philip Gregan, told Decanter.com.

'Quality is looking outstanding, with extended long, warm ripening conditions and no disease pressure,' added Yealands Estate owner Peter Yealands, based in Awatere Valley, Marlborough.